rubber-stamping

One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.

> One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.

Those providing oversight can then be coerced into rubber-stamping whatever the NSA wishes.

And this is at the low-budget end, I don't collect a fat salary for rubber-stamping clearance forms or anything like that.

This should be shocking, but all it is is evidence that the court got tired of doing all that one-off rubber-stamping and just got a bigger stamp.

If not, they're arguably just rubber-stamping the application.

This isn't a pure rubber-stamping service.

Instead of rubber-stamping it, congressmen would have to take a position one way or the other, and I doubt there's much good argument for its continuation en-masse.

The legislature that unwittingly passed an honour for the 'Boston Strangler' (used his real name, not that name) lends pretty clear evidence to the idea of legislative rubber-stamping instead of disinterested investigation and fact-checking.

You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping" and "farcical" to describe the same phenomenon I just did.

You're confirming my comment: the appeal to "rubber-stamping" is really just the concession that, put to a Congressional vote, people who oppose some provisions of the TPP would still rather have a flawed TPP than no TPP.

> You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping" I'm just rephrasing what you said yourself: > they realize that once the treaty is put to a "it's this treaty or no treaty" vote, it will inevitably pass.